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An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country

I guess it’s inevitable, when you’re at a book talk by a 1970s radical political activist who was wanted by the FBI, went underground, got arrested, and spent 16 and a half years behind bars, that someone will ask “How do you understand what you did and why?” Susan Rosenberg made an honest attempt to answer a complex question, ending with a shrug and the explanation, “That's a different book.”

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Jewish Women's Archive. "An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country." (Viewed on March 19, 2018) <https://jwa.org/tags/american-radical-political-prisoner-in-my-own-country>.